" BackgroundThe Cabin in the Cotton(1932) is director Michael Curtiz"" pre-Code social melodrama about social injustice, adapted with a screenplay by Paul Green of Henry Harrison Kroll""s 1931 novelCabin in he Cotton -a diatribe against the exploitation of sharecroppers by wealthy southern landowners.Police sirens momentarily divert the gangsters"" attention, and the two musicians escape - eager to get out of town to avoid being massacred:Jerry: I think they got me.Feeling guilty about his unfaithfulness, Paul left Tina ("I can""t go through with this") to go look for Samantha, while to Ted""s consternation, the slutty Tina danced for a few moments with Jimmy and then led him upstairs! By the shore of the lake, Paul saw Samantha (supposedly sleeping) in the raft and swam out to her, screaming when he found her dead body.]The pro-war propaganda filmThe Fall of a Nation (1916), writer/director Thomas Dixon Jr.""s follow-up film to D.W.Griffith""sThe Birth of a Nation, is widely considered to be the first film sequel.[Note: It is a lost film that no one alive has seen.] Dixon, whose 1905 bookThe Clansmanwas the source for Griffith""s 1915 film, sought to capitalize on the film""s financial success by writing and publishing a new novel in 1916 titled The Fall of a Nation - he then made it into a film.